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Kashmiri Muslims bow in supplication as the head cleric displays the holy relic -- believed to be hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad -- during the Islamic festival celebrating Muhammad's birthday.

Protesters perform a street play to dramatize their demand for retribution for a massive fire at a garment factory in Savar on Nov. 24 that killed 112 workers.Some who escaped said they found exits locked and were told to go back to work when the fire alarm went off. Protesters want punishment for the factory's owners and compensation for the victims' families, dozens of which did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition.

Britain's Andy Murray serves against Switzerland's Roger Federer in their semifinal match at the Australian Open tennis tournament. Murray needed four hours and five sets to defeat Federer and will now face Serbia's Novak Djokovic in the final.

Six former Bell city leaders -- George Mirabal, top, Luis Artiga, Teresa Jacobo, George Cole, Oscar Hernandez and Victor Bello -- attend the first day of their trial at Los Angeles County Superior Court.

A resident walks past police patrolling a street in the Ilha do Governador neighborhood in the favela do Dende shantytown. Drug traffickers clashed with police early Thursday. Three people were killed and four were detained during the clashes.

A member of the National Air and Navy Service of Panama guards a 2,800-pound cocaine consignment seized on Tuesday in Cocoli. In two days the service seized nearly 5,000 pounds of cocaine destined for the United States.

Members of an Indian military band rehearse for the Beating Retreat ceremony at Raisina Hill, which houses India's most important ministries and the presidential palace. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29, marking the end of Republic Day celebrations.

Indonesian volunteers dunk their colleague in the flood waters after distributing relief goods to flood victims in Jakarta. Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency said more than 30,000 people were displaced while 20 people died during the widespread flooding that hit Jakarta as the weather bureau forecast more rain in the coming days.

A Japanese coast guard ship sprays water at a Taiwanese fishing boat transporting activists to the disputed islands known as Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyu in China or Tiaoyutai in Taiwan in the East China Sea. Escorted by four Taiwan coast guard vessels, a fishing boat carrying Taiwanese activists made an attempt to reach the Senkaku Islands.

Egyptian protesters tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square. Egypt's black-clad riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters. The violence comes on eve of the second anniversary of Egypt's Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak.

A man and woman are bundled up against the cold on New York's 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The temperature at morning commute time was about 12 degrees, but with wind gusts of 15 to 20 mph, it felt more like 5 below.

Huskies pull a sled in a forest course during practice for the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally in Scotland. Huskies and sledders are preparing for the Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain's 30th anniversary race taking place this weekend near Aviemore.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, during a hearing on Capitol Hill. Clinton warned of the challenges posed by rising militancy after the Arab Spring as she appeared before U.S. lawmakers Wednesday to be asked about a deadly attack.

An Afghan laborer outside a traditional brick factory in Kholm. Afghanistan is having trouble keeping hard-earned development gains due to looming security challenges when NATO military forces withdraw in 2014, an internal World Bank audit reported.

A Thai beautician gives a face hair removal treatment to a customer at a roadside shop in Bangkok. The ancient Chinese traditional facial hair removal process, consisting of putting powder on the customer's face, then using a crisscrossed thread to pluck along the skin surface, costs about $3.30.

An Indonesian animal vendor binds a monkey before selling it to a buyer at the Sungai Sarik Market in Indonesia. Being one of the largest coconut producing areas in West Sumatra, the Padang Pariaman people use the monkeys to pick the coconuts from the trees. Female monkeys are valued at about $25, whereas male monkeys are valued at about $12.

A protester is injured by police after they opened fire with rubber bullets during the third day on of ongoing service delivery riots in South Africa. The poor residents of the township contend the ruling African National Congress government has not delivered basic services to them in the 16 years since the end of apartheid. Many people are living without running water or waste disposal.

Students wait outside an entrance to Lone Star College after a shooting that wounded at least three people and sent students fleeing for safety. The campus was locked down for at least an hour before an evacuation began. One person was detained as a person of interest, and authorities were searching surrounding woods for someone else also described as a person of interest.

Twenty-eight vehicles collided in fog in Kleidi, about 500 kilometers north of Athens, on Tuesday. One woman died and 26 others where injured, four in serious condition. According to police, 20 vehicles were involved in a first pileup and eight were involved in a second collision near the first.

Freya, companion to British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, makes herself at home in a room in 10 Downing Street where a meeting between British Prime Minister David Cameron and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani was shortly scheduled to take place.

People wave American flags as people gather near the U.S. Capitol building on the National Mall for the inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C. President Obama is ceremonially sworn in for his second term Monday.

About 150 firefighters from the Los Angeles County Fire Department worked for several hours to bring the blaze under control that destroyed the cafeteria building at Mountain View High School in El Monte.

A Malian soldier holds a French and Malian flag after arriving in the city of Diabaly. French and Malian troops entered Diabaly, which has been the theater of air strikes and fighting since being seized by Islamists a week ago.

Riot police stand guard as a woman holds a portrait of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko signed with the words "Guiltless!" as she attends a protest rally in front of President Viktor Yanukovych's offices. Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka accused Tymoshenko of organizing the 1996 murder of a powerful lawmaker and warned that a guilty verdict could put her behind bars for life.

A giant model watch by watchmaker A. Lange & Soehne, part of luxury goods group Richemont, is displayed during the opening day of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), a professional fair in fine watchmaking in Geneva.

Tim Coulson, huntmaster at the Lauderdale Hunt, exercises the hounds in the snow at Scarce Law in Lauder. Widespread snowfall is affecting most of the U.K. with school closures and transportation disruption.

A supporter of the Russian Communist Party uncovers a poster showing a portrait of the former Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin during a rally near the Lenin monument in downtown Moscow. The day marks the anniversary of Lenin's death in 1924.

Indonesian people wade through a flooded street to get free cooking gas in Jakarta. Companies and consumers have started to calculate damages and losses from the widespread floods that hit Jakarta last week, claiming at least 15 lives, displacing thousands from their homes and afflicting capital residents with water-borne illnesses.

The Week in Pictures | January 21 – 27, 2013

Thousands gathered near the U.S. Capitol building on the National Mall for the inauguration ceremony, where President Obama was ceremonially sworn in for his second term Monday.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, during a hearing on Capitol Hill. Clinton warned of the challenges posed by rising militancy after the Arab Spring as she appeared before lawmakers Wednesday.

Visitors walked through a winter wonderland in the snowy landscape at Grosser Feldberg in Germany. Cold weather was on the menu across the Atlantic as well, where commuters bundled up against the cold on New York’s 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The temperature was about 12 degrees, but with wind gusts of 15 to 20 mph, it felt more like 5 below. In Chicago, a firefighter’s helmet is covered with ice from single digit temperatures during a five-alarm blaze in a warehouse on the city’s South Side.

In Asia, Bangladeshi activists performed a street play during a protest demanding punishment for the Tazreen Fashions factory owner and compensation for the victims outside the factory in Savar. When fire ravaged a Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones’ remains were burned beyond recognition. Kashmiri Muslims celebrated the Islamic festival of Eid-e-Milad, the prophet Muhammad’s birthday in Srinagar, where thousands thronged the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the prophet.

Britain’s Andy Murray outlasted Switzerland’s Roger Federer during their men’s singles semi-final match on Day 12 of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.

Elsewhere, people dropped lines in holes drilled through ice on the Taedong River to fish in North Korea; icicles hang from a bicycle seat in Frankfurt, Germany, where overnight snowfall and freezing temperatures have caused traffic problems in the city; and a supporter of the Russian Communist Party uncovers a poster showing a portrait of the former Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin during a rally near the Lenin monument in downtown Moscow. The day marks the anniversary of Lenin’s death in 1924.

Add stops in Mali, Kiev, Scotland, Afghanistan and South Africa to round out the report.